Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason: And Other Crimes and Misdemeanor from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... from the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Henry, the Second, A.D.1163, to ... [George IV, A.D.1820], Volume 24Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell R. Bagshaw, 1818 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... tion , went the length of voting , in that society the very resolution for which the British con- vention had been stopt in Edinburgh ; for which Margarot was then lying convicted in gaol ; for which the jury of Scotland had found it ...
... tion , went the length of voting , in that society the very resolution for which the British con- vention had been stopt in Edinburgh ; for which Margarot was then lying convicted in gaol ; for which the jury of Scotland had found it ...
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... tion of our country , and shall continue to as- semble , and consider of the best means by which we can accomplish a real representa- tion of the people , and annual election until compelled to desist by superior force . " And we ...
... tion of our country , and shall continue to as- semble , and consider of the best means by which we can accomplish a real representa- tion of the people , and annual election until compelled to desist by superior force . " And we ...
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... tion of dependent judges , by vesting in such. January , 1794 , citizen John Martin in the chair . The following address to the people of Great Britain and Ireland , was read and agreed to . shall be likewise amerced , saving to him his ...
... tion of dependent judges , by vesting in such. January , 1794 , citizen John Martin in the chair . The following address to the people of Great Britain and Ireland , was read and agreed to . shall be likewise amerced , saving to him his ...
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... tion , and these unjust and wicked judgments have been executed with a rancour and malig- nity never before known in this land . Our respectable and beloved fellow citizens have been cast , fettered , into dungeons , amongst felons in ...
... tion , and these unjust and wicked judgments have been executed with a rancour and malig- nity never before known in this land . Our respectable and beloved fellow citizens have been cast , fettered , into dungeons , amongst felons in ...
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... tion of dependent judges , by vesting in such judges a legislative or arbitrary power ( such as has lately been exercised by the court of justiciary in Scotland ) ought to be considered as dissolving entirely the social compact be ...
... tion of dependent judges , by vesting in such judges a legislative or arbitrary power ( such as has lately been exercised by the court of justiciary in Scotland ) ought to be considered as dissolving entirely the social compact be ...
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Page 45 - No Freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful Judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right.
Page 501 - ... cause why it should be repealed, or why another ought to be substituted in its place. I have always held it an opinion (making it also my practice) that it is better to obey a bad law, making use at the same time of every argument to show its errors and procure its repeal, than forcibly to violate it ; because the precedent of breaking a bad law might weaken the force, and lead to a discretionary violation of those which are good.
Page 955 - The seeds of destruction are sown in civil intercourse, in social habitudes. The blood of wholesome kindred is infected. Their tables and beds are surrounded with snares. All the means given by Providence to make life safe and comfortable are perverted into instruments of terror and torment.
Page 221 - ... it is accorded, that if any other case supposed treason which is not above specified, doth happen before any justices, the justices shall tarry without any going to judgment of the treason, till the cause be shewed and declared before the King and his parliament, whether it ought to be judged treason or other felony.
Page 245 - ... when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King, or of our lady his queen or of their eldest son and heir...
Page 495 - ... contrivance it has been usurped into an inheritance, the usurpation cannot alter the right of things. Sovereignty, as a matter of right, appertains to the Nation only, and not to any individual ; and a Nation has at all times an inherent indefeasible right to abolish any form of Government it finds inconvenient, and establish such as accords with its interest, disposition, and happiness.
Page 917 - The distempers of monarchy were the great subjects of apprehension and redress, in the last century ; in this, the distempers of parliament.
Page 921 - ... restored the old and true one, and to have rectified the disorders which succession of time had insensibly, as well as inevitably introduced; for it being the interest as well as intention of the people to have a fair and equal representative, whoever brings it nearest to that, is an undoubted friend to, and establisher of the government, and cannot miss the consent and approbation of the community...
Page 497 - Having thus glanced at some of the defects of the two Houses of Parliament, I proceed to what is called the Crown, upon which I shall be very concise.
Page 45 - A Freeman shall not be amerced for a small fault, but after the manner of the fault; and for a great fault after the greatness thereof, saving to him his contenement; and a Merchant likewise, saving to him his Merchandise; and any other's villain than ours shall be likewise amerced, saving his wainage, if he falls into our mercy. And none of the said amerciaments shall be assessed, but by the oath of honest and lawful men of the vicinage.